The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-15

Farmers Alliance are making great
preparation for the meeting Of the
Farmers State.sConvention at Green's
boro on the 18th of January.
Lenoir Topic: Mr.. Geo. M. Goforth,
who is one of our most progressive
farmers, is a great sweet potato raiser
and is almost as successful as a Coffey
in saving his crop. He has lately
built a underground potato house. He
tunneled 80 feet under ground on a
hillside and then built a side tunnel 80
feet long. In this warm under recep-
tacle he has placed his potatoes on the
floor just so without any covering of
any sort and they are keeping finely.
During the late cold spell he says that
the temperature in his tunnel was as
high and warm as in close house.
Wadesboro MteNigencer: A gentle
man living a short distance from Lit
tie Brown Greek now comes to the
front with the startling proposition
that cartridges are an unfailing pre-.
~ventive of chills and fever. He as
sures us that he knows not of a single
man, or a single member of any family,
who has been attacked with chills
when cartridges have entered literally
into the diet of the household. He
has. inquired, but can find nobody
who knows an exception to the rule.
This is an item, AMI it will be received
by the average sportsman as a piece of
good news.
Mt. Airy News: Two brothers of
Lou Haynes, the murdered girl, ar.
rived in town last week from Bristol,
East Tenn. They were much affected
and seemed determined to hunt up
Tilley, the alleged murderer of their
sister. The crime was SO shocking and
desperate that people will not soon
forget it. 1t seems almost incredible
that such an awful deed could be COM
mitted by a human being. Since last
week we learn from a reliable gentle
man that the report of a pistol was
heard at the place where the cremated
body was found just before the smoke
was discovered. The same party also
stated that he saw Bob Leak Tilley
running or walking very rapidly from
the vicinity soon after the crime was
committed.
Statesville Landmark: J. A. Hoppe,
Esq, of Cool Spring township, raised
this year six bales of cotton on seven
acres of land, with the aid of S3.l5
worth of commercial fertilizer. That's
farming.-East Saturday Miss
Daisey Barley was in the room of
her sister, Mrs. G. w. Boshamer, and
had occasion to go into her trunk.
Mr.. Boshamer's pistol was hanging in
one Of the leather handles of the trunk,
the muzzle up. AS Miss Barley low
cred the trunk lid and turned away,
the pistol dropped out. AS it fell it
was discharged and the ball passed
through the feshy part of the young
lady's right thigh at an upward angle,
and was buried out of sight in the cell
ing. Just such an accident probably
never happened before in the world
and probably never will happen again.
Durham Recorder: Durham will in
a short while have a Bonded Ware
house and Loan Association. These
two enterprises will be worth a vast
amount to u people. A full account
will be given as soon as the companies
are organized.-S Sorry to say it, but
there is one mean nan in Durham
county. He carried his poor old
m~other-in-law to the poor house, and
made the county pay him for his team
and a days work. The fact becomes
a when we say that she was too
old to assume the aggressive, and that
her tongue was paralyzed.-Mt.
Pisgah is the Oldest Baptist church in
the New Hope valley, Chatham county,
and should be dear to every Baptist
in North Carolina. 1t used to stand
about half a mile from where*it does
now, on the spot where Mr.. John w.
Beavers now resides. 1t was then
known as Yates Westinghouse. Next
April will make ffty-four years since
DIR. Matthew T. Yates (the celebrated
Missionary to China) joined the churcd
here. There are but two members of
the church now living who belonged
to the church that DR.. NJ. T. Yates
joined. r..
Charlotte Chronicle: A good deal of
North Carolina timber is now being
shipped to England, Scotland and Ger